Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1508

• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Entitlement holder: means a person identified in the records of a securities intermediary as the person having a security entitlement against the securities intermediary. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• Financial asset: except as otherwise provided in section 8?1103, means:
  (i) A security;
  (ii) An obligation of a person or a share, participation or other interest in a person or in property or an enterprise of a person that is, or is of a type, dealt in or traded on financial markets or that is recognized in any area in which it is issued or dealt in as a medium for investment; or
  (iii) Any property that is held by a securities intermediary for another person in a securities account if the securities intermediary has expressly agreed with the other person that the property is to be treated as a financial asset under this Article. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• Securities intermediary: means :
  (i) A clearing corporation; or
  (ii) A person, including a bank or broker, that in the ordinary course of its business maintains securities accounts for others and is acting in that capacity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102
• Security: except as otherwise provided in section 8?1103, means an obligation of an issuer or a share, participation or other interest in an issuer or in property or an enterprise of an issuer:
  (i) That is represented by a security certificate in bearer or registered form or the transfer of which may be registered upon books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer;
  (ii) That is one of a class or series or by its terms is divisible into a class or series of shares, participations, interests or obligations; and
  (iii) That:

  (A) Is, or is of a type, dealt in or traded on securities exchanges or securities markets; or

  (B) Is a medium for investment and by its terms expressly provides that it is a security governed by this Article. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 11 Sec. 8-1102